An intriguing aspect to this is the non arrival of my March 2009 BAS statement (dead tree variety) but my accountant went to the ATO website to retrieve it electronically. It was a shocker – my qtr company tax escalated 10 times, but my income went south – unemployed for 3.5 months since January.

Given that I get nothing from the guvmint, used all my savings to survive these last months, only then to be hit with this quasi provisional tax, albeit under a different name, coupled with the increase in government is too much – so folks, welcome to the final arrival of the Fabians and socialist utopia.

I admit I should not have signed the contract last April 2008 to trade in my caravan for a slightly larger one, and I should not have signed the contract to buy a work vehicle to tow it on 7 October 2008, both contracts due last December but no one really predicted the preciptitous market collapse and being at the coal face of the exploration industry, (I am an exploration geologist), we are the first to become unemployed.

Fortunately I am back in work, but I can see the rest of the year being spent paying our larger guvmint’s wastefullness.

What also prompted this post was the interview by some WA bureaucrat reminding Curtin FM listeners that employees have “entitlements”. Not if you are self employed however – no paid annual leave, no paid public holidays, no long service leave, the list could go on ad finitum, but it’s we who are the backbone of the economy – not the rent seekers or those paid by our taxes.

I’ll be hoping for a 36.2% reduction in my annual tax bill.
Yeah right – KRudd’s going to have to raise taxes another 30% to just to cover all this stimulation. They’re even givign alchopos a second go.
Why don’t you run a book on where the extra taxes will come from?

Yes you are quite correct – the rigs always go first and hence why we then follow them. But I have to go into the field first to peg the holes, which I am doing tomorrow, so I am thus 1/2 right if that is rationally possible, and the rigs follow the geologists, or “rig pigs” as we are affectionally called.

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